P3X - People, Product, & Process eXchange is the evolution of Agile Testing and BDD eXchange - Skills Matter’s longest running conference. Over the last 9 years, the conference has changed (and grown) quite a bit. While our Agile Testing and BDD community continues to grow, the community’s understanding of BDD is constantly progressing.

Conversations about BDD have evolved dramatically. The community's early focus was on using executable specifications to drive design. It evolved towards the importance of collaboration. People explored how BDD practices steered that collaboration and bridged communication gaps. We clarified the inner and outer loops of code-level examples and customer-level scenarios. More people developed from the outside in. Each conversation took us closer towards delivering better software that matters.

BDDX is Dead! Long Live P3X!

At last year’s conference we asked you what you were interested in, and 3 key themes emerged:

People - How to foster the collaboration that maximises the potential of individuals and teams: from diversity and collective intelligence to factors that help us collaborate more effectively;

Product - Ways in which we think about, understand, slice and explore the intent of each evolution of our products with BDD;

Process/Practices - Practices, tools, models and techniques that help us deliver awesome outcomes that change the world.

In light of this, we’d like to shape this year’s conference around these three themes, so that we can include even more great content and reflect the diversity of interests in our community. We see an opportunity to bring the principles of BDD to a wider audience.

Get Involved- Call for Papers is now OPEN

We are building the programme for our revamped conference focussed on People-Product-Process. Do you have an idea for a talk for one of these themes? Get your thinking caps on. Our call for papers is currently open!

Talks will be selected by Skills Matter and the Programme Committee on the basis of making the conference a varied, diverse and valuable event. Submission is open to anyone, and we encourage first-time speakers to submit a proposal. Members of the Programme Committee are happy to offer coaching and assistance on talk proposals.

We strongly encourage first-time speakers to be part of our programmes, and it is our target to feature as many first-time speakers as we can at this year's P3X. If your talk will be selected, you will have the opportunity to attend Jenny Martin's course "Giving Engaging Technical Talks at Conferences and Meetups".

Our Diversity Scholarship Plan

Skills Matter is proud and happy to share our P3X - People, Product, Process eXchange Diversity Scholarship Plan which provides support to those from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities who may not have the opportunity to attend P3X for various reasons.

Scholarships are awarded based on a combination of need and impact. Scholarship recipients will receive a complimentary ticket to the conference.

Thanks to our sponsors

Keynote: Extremely excited to have Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg Keynoting at this year #P3X!

Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg is a consultant and trainer focused on more human(e) ways of working. She holds a PhD in the Psychology of Collaborative Software Development and since parenting an autistic son has developed an interest in neuro-diversity. Through re-assessing her own traits and neurology, and considering the extra-ordinary people with whom she has worked over her 25+ years in tech, Sal is raising awareness of the benefits of having diversity in our organisations, and is helping the industry to begin to understand how to support and nurture every kind of brain.

Opening Keynote: Thrilled to have to Dan North Keynoting at #P3X 2018!

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide.

Jeffrey is at the forefront of change with a career spanning more than 2 decades helping organizations hone their business processes by improving their business analysis and product management practices.

Keynote: Looking forward to Seb Rose Keynote Talk at #P3X 2018!

Consultant, coach, trainer, analyst and developer for over 30 years.
Seb has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from Architecture to Support, from BASIC to Ruby. He’s a partner in Cucumber Limited, who help teams adopt and refine their agile practices, with a particular focus on collaboration and automated testing.

Keynote: We are excited to have Janet Gregory at #P3X this year!

An agile testing coach and practitioner, Janet Gregory is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product; for example, guiding development with business-facing tests.

Keynote: Breaking the Black Box

Pete is a founder director of Co Made, and is passionate about using collaborative approaches to build software that changes businesses for the better.

CodeNode

In August 2015, Skills Matter opened the doors to CodeNode, our new 23,000 sqft Tech Events and Community venue. CodeNode provides fantastic meetup, conference, training and collaboration spaces with unrivalled technology capabilities for our tech, digital and developer communities - a long held dream coming true !

With fantastic transport links and located in the heart of London's Tech City, we could not think of a better location for our 130,000 strong engineering community!

With seven event rooms, including a 300 seater lecture room, thousands more community members will be able to visit CodeNode to learn and share skills, code and collaborate on projects.

CodeNode features a 5,000 sqft break-out space, complete with fully-licensed bar, plenty of power sockets, meeting and collaboration spaces and entertainment areas.

CodeNode will also see the opening of a permanent Hack Space, stacked with microprocessors and the latest tools and devices to play with. A community film studio will be opening too, which you can use to record any tutorials or demo's you may want to share with our community.

If you're interested in hiring CodeNode for your upcoming event, check out more details here.

CodeNode

Skills Matter | CodeNode, 10 South Place, London, EC2M 7EB, GB

Call For Papers!

We are building the programme for our revamped conference focussed on People-Product-Process! Would you like to speak at #P3X? We would love to hear from you!

Talks will be selected by Skills Matter and the Programme Committee on the basis of making the conference a varied, diverse and valuable event. Submission is open to anyone, and we encourage first-time speakers to submit a proposal. Members of the Programme Committee are happy to offer coaching and assistance on talk proposals.

We strongly encourage first-time speakers to be part of our programmes, and it is our target to feature as many first-time speakers as we can at this year's P3X. If your talk will be selected, you will have the opportunity to attend Jenny Martin's course "Giving Engaging Technical Talks at Conferences and Meetups".

Fill in your proposal details in the form below!

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Our Diversity Scholarship Plan

Skills Matter is proud and happy to share our P3X - People, Product, Process eXchange Diversity Scholarship Plan which provides support to those from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities who may not have the opportunity to attend P3X for various reasons.

Scholarships are awarded based on a combination of need and impact. Scholarship recipients will receive a complimentary ticket to the conference.

Please note, travel expenses are not covered under this scholarship and are the responsibility of the scholarship recipient.

Eligibility

Applicants should be from a traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities and be unable to attend without some assistance.

We look forward to having you at People, Product & Process eXchange 2018!

Joining us for P3X 2018 and want more? Make it a whole week of collaboration learning with these fringe courses...
Call or email our team about the P3X Fringe Package for a special discount on bundle tickets!

This highly participatory 3 day workshop equips you with a toolkit to help align teams towards the quickest path to value and accelerate iterative delivery through more effective collaboration. Drawing on collaborative techniques from Lean, BDD and Specification by Example (as well as some new ones), you will gain a hands-on understanding of how to leverage examples to guide conversations and drive development throughout the life-cycle of a project and beyond, from ideas to living documentation, from analysis to Dev.

Martine Devos' Certified Scrum Product Owner

6th - 7th November 2018

Are you a product owner struggling to find the time to understand your role in a scrum or agile process? Are you faced with competing demands from inside and outside your team? Are your colleagues always looking for more information about what should be in the next sprints? And do they complain about never getting enough of your time, even though you work long hours trying to keep up? While there are very important advantages to Scrum, product owners may find it difficult to get used to the visibility and highly iterative work it involves, often longing for old processes. If any of this sounds familiar, then this is the course for you!

Whole Team Approach to Agile Testing

5th - 7th November 2018

Are you part of a testing team that is transitioning to an agile development process? Are you keen to learn how to become a valued member of an agile team and contribute to delivering a continuous stream of business value? Would you like to understand how to overcome common cultural and logistical obstacles in transition? Join Janet Gregory for her Agile Testing course to learn the values and principles that help testers adopt an agile testing mindset, and how the whole team contributes to the success of practices, including automation.

Agile at Scale: Inspired by Spotify

6th - 7th November 2018

Want to build an organisation that enables agile at scale and unleashes the power of small autonomous teams? This two-day course will give you inspiring real world examples of how Spotify grew a dynamic learning organisation that continually reinforces a high-trust culture and supports engaged autonomous teams.

You will gain a deep and wide knowledge of how Spotify works under the hood, which will enable you to see more options for improving organisational design with regards to your context and boundaries. You will learn why Spotify made the decisions they made, other options which were considered, and which changes were intentional and which were emergent.

Alberto Brandolini's EventStorming Workshop

8th - 9th November 2018

Want to explore how to model a complex business process, or the whole company software landscape without being trapped in an endless boring analysis phase? Eager to tame complexity with agility, starting in the most appropriate way, with the right understanding of the big picture?

EventStorming Workshop unites agile modeling techniques and the cutting-edge event-driven approach with a uniquely engaging format, that leads to a fast problem exploration and establishes a collaborative approach between key participants.

The result is a clear tangible model, built extremely quickly with the active contribution of all involved roles. Friction points that often lead to wrong implementations are exposed early and natural, clean modelling options are highlighted.

Whether you are seeking to improve visibility of your tools, devices or projects, or simply would like to support People, Product, Process eXchange's passionate community through your engagement, our sponsorship team will be able to help you select the best sponsorship package for you! Email sponsors@skillsmatter.com or phone 0207 183 9040.

Available Packages

256-BIT SPONSORSHIP

Engagement Benefits

Exhibitor booth (4.5m x 2.5m) in central conference break-out area

8 free conference tickets, worth £795 each (subject to availability) which you can gift to your clients, your engineering team or members of Computing At School (teachers learning computing to teach the new National Computing Curriculum)

8 free exhibitor passes

6 of your #P3X related tweets retweeted by @skillsmatter before or during the conference

50 conference party drink tokens to give away at your booth

3 gifts or printed items in swag bags

4 places at speakers dinner

Your 300-word news item, interview or blog post plus visual announced on conference sneak preview pages and in social media

Thanks to our sponsors

Hold tight, skillscasts coming soon!

Two days in London

Do you want to know what the future holds for Agile Testing, or how BDD can help you to improve the build quality of your delivery teams from the start? Are you looking to meet up with the best in BDD and the experts of agile methodologies as well as like-minded individuals with a passion in...

Two days in London

Do you want to know what the future holds for Agile Testing, or how BDD can help you to improve the build quality of your delivery teams from the start? Are you looking to meet up with the best in BDD and the experts of agile methodologies as well as like-minded individuals with a passion in...

Two days in London

Do you want to know what the future holds for Agile Testing, or how BDD can help you to improve the build quality of your delivery teams from the start? Are you looking to meet up with the best in BDD and the architects of agile methodologies as well as like-minded individuals with a passion in...

Two days in London

Do you want your systems to be the best they can be? Want to know how BDD helps delivery teams build quality in right from the start? Interested in meeting leading experts like Jeff Patton to learn about their latest ideas and their vision for the future?

One day in London

Do you want to learn tools and techniques to help you deliver on all requirements in your software? Keen to hear how your teams can use Impact Mapping and Specification by Example to maximise business input? Or maybe you’d like to meet the top thinkers in Agile testing and BDD to find out their...

One day in New York City

Would you like to spend a day learning the latest ideas, tools, and best practices in Agile Testing, Behaviour Driven Development, and Test Driven Development? Like to learn how to have meaningful conversations with stakeholders and get useful feedback that will help you write better, more...

One day in London

Join us for the next Agile Testing & BDD eXchange on November 23 2012. Be part of an intensive day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.

One day in New York City

One day in London

Join us for 2011's Agile Testing & BDD eXchange and be part of an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.

One day in London

One day in London

Following the enthusiastic response to our Agile Testing and BDD community events and courses during the last 10 months, Skills Matter is proud to organise the first, annual Agile Specification, BDD and Testing eXchange.

We are currently working on the programme, which will consist of 6 talks and...

P3X - People, Product, & Process eXchange is the evolution of Agile Testing and BDD eXchange - Skills Matter’s longest running conference. Over the last 9 years, the conference has changed (and grown) quite a bit. While our Agile Testing and BDD community continues to grow, the community’s understanding of BDD is constantly progressing.

Conversations about BDD have evolved dramatically. The community's early focus was on using executable specifications to drive design. It evolved towards the importance of collaboration. People explored how BDD practices steered that collaboration and bridged communication gaps. We clarified the inner and outer loops of code-level examples and customer-level scenarios. More people developed from the outside in. Each conversation took us closer towards delivering better software that matters.

BDDX is Dead! Long Live P3X!

At last year’s conference we asked you what you were interested in, and 3 key themes emerged:

People - How to foster the collaboration that maximises the potential of individuals and teams: from diversity and collective intelligence to factors that help us collaborate more effectively;

Product - Ways in which we think about, understand, slice and explore the intent of each evolution of our products with BDD;

Process/Practices - Practices, tools, models and techniques that help us deliver awesome outcomes that change the world.

In light of this, we’d like to shape this year’s conference around these three themes, so that we can include even more great content and reflect the diversity of interests in our community. We see an opportunity to bring the principles of BDD to a wider audience.

Get Involved- Call for Papers is now OPEN

We are building the programme for our revamped conference focussed on People-Product-Process. Do you have an idea for a talk for one of these themes? Get your thinking caps on. Our call for papers is currently open!

Talks will be selected by Skills Matter and the Programme Committee on the basis of making the conference a varied, diverse and valuable event. Submission is open to anyone, and we encourage first-time speakers to submit a proposal. Members of the Programme Committee are happy to offer coaching and assistance on talk proposals.

We strongly encourage first-time speakers to be part of our programmes, and it is our target to feature as many first-time speakers as we can at this year's P3X. If your talk will be selected, you will have the opportunity to attend Jenny Martin's course "Giving Engaging Technical Talks at Conferences and Meetups".

Our Diversity Scholarship Plan

Skills Matter is proud and happy to share our P3X - People, Product, Process eXchange Diversity Scholarship Plan which provides support to those from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities who may not have the opportunity to attend P3X for various reasons.

Scholarships are awarded based on a combination of need and impact. Scholarship recipients will receive a complimentary ticket to the conference.

Thanks to our sponsors

Keynote: Extremely excited to have Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg Keynoting at this year #P3X!

Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg is a consultant and trainer focused on more human(e) ways of working. She holds a PhD in the Psychology of Collaborative Software Development and since parenting an autistic son has developed an interest in neuro-diversity. Through re-assessing her own traits and neurology, and considering the extra-ordinary people with whom she has worked over her 25+ years in tech, Sal is raising awareness of the benefits of having diversity in our organisations, and is helping the industry to begin to understand how to support and nurture every kind of brain.

Opening Keynote: Thrilled to have to Dan North Keynoting at #P3X 2018!

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide.

Jeffrey is at the forefront of change with a career spanning more than 2 decades helping organizations hone their business processes by improving their business analysis and product management practices.

Keynote: Looking forward to Seb Rose Keynote Talk at #P3X 2018!

Consultant, coach, trainer, analyst and developer for over 30 years.
Seb has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from Architecture to Support, from BASIC to Ruby. He’s a partner in Cucumber Limited, who help teams adopt and refine their agile practices, with a particular focus on collaboration and automated testing.

Keynote: We are excited to have Janet Gregory at #P3X this year!

An agile testing coach and practitioner, Janet Gregory is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product; for example, guiding development with business-facing tests.

CodeNode

In August 2015, Skills Matter opened the doors to CodeNode, our new 23,000 sqft Tech Events and Community venue. CodeNode provides fantastic meetup, conference, training and collaboration spaces with unrivalled technology capabilities for our tech, digital and developer communities - a long held dream coming true !

With fantastic transport links and located in the heart of London's Tech City, we could not think of a better location for our 130,000 strong engineering community!

With seven event rooms, including a 300 seater lecture room, thousands more community members will be able to visit CodeNode to learn and share skills, code and collaborate on projects.

CodeNode features a 5,000 sqft break-out space, complete with fully-licensed bar, plenty of power sockets, meeting and collaboration spaces and entertainment areas.

CodeNode will also see the opening of a permanent Hack Space, stacked with microprocessors and the latest tools and devices to play with. A community film studio will be opening too, which you can use to record any tutorials or demo's you may want to share with our community.

If you're interested in hiring CodeNode for your upcoming event, check out more details here.

CodeNode

Skills Matter | CodeNode, 10 South Place, London, EC2M 7EB, GB

Call For Papers!

We are building the programme for our revamped conference focussed on People-Product-Process! Would you like to speak at #P3X? We would love to hear from you!

Talks will be selected by Skills Matter and the Programme Committee on the basis of making the conference a varied, diverse and valuable event. Submission is open to anyone, and we encourage first-time speakers to submit a proposal. Members of the Programme Committee are happy to offer coaching and assistance on talk proposals.

We strongly encourage first-time speakers to be part of our programmes, and it is our target to feature as many first-time speakers as we can at this year's P3X. If your talk will be selected, you will have the opportunity to attend Jenny Martin's course "Giving Engaging Technical Talks at Conferences and Meetups".

Fill in your proposal details in the form below!

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Our Diversity Scholarship Plan

Skills Matter is proud and happy to share our P3X - People, Product, Process eXchange Diversity Scholarship Plan which provides support to those from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities who may not have the opportunity to attend P3X for various reasons.

Scholarships are awarded based on a combination of need and impact. Scholarship recipients will receive a complimentary ticket to the conference.

Please note, travel expenses are not covered under this scholarship and are the responsibility of the scholarship recipient.

Eligibility

Applicants should be from a traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities and be unable to attend without some assistance.

We look forward to having you at People, Product & Process eXchange 2018!

Joining us for P3X 2018 and want more? Make it a whole week of collaboration learning with these fringe courses...
Call or email our team about the P3X Fringe Package for a special discount on bundle tickets!

This highly participatory 3 day workshop equips you with a toolkit to help align teams towards the quickest path to value and accelerate iterative delivery through more effective collaboration. Drawing on collaborative techniques from Lean, BDD and Specification by Example (as well as some new ones), you will gain a hands-on understanding of how to leverage examples to guide conversations and drive development throughout the life-cycle of a project and beyond, from ideas to living documentation, from analysis to Dev.

Martine Devos' Certified Scrum Product Owner

6th - 7th November 2018

Are you a product owner struggling to find the time to understand your role in a scrum or agile process? Are you faced with competing demands from inside and outside your team? Are your colleagues always looking for more information about what should be in the next sprints? And do they complain about never getting enough of your time, even though you work long hours trying to keep up? While there are very important advantages to Scrum, product owners may find it difficult to get used to the visibility and highly iterative work it involves, often longing for old processes. If any of this sounds familiar, then this is the course for you!

Whole Team Approach to Agile Testing

5th - 7th November 2018

Are you part of a testing team that is transitioning to an agile development process? Are you keen to learn how to become a valued member of an agile team and contribute to delivering a continuous stream of business value? Would you like to understand how to overcome common cultural and logistical obstacles in transition? Join Janet Gregory for her Agile Testing course to learn the values and principles that help testers adopt an agile testing mindset, and how the whole team contributes to the success of practices, including automation.

Agile at Scale: Inspired by Spotify

6th - 7th November 2018

Want to build an organisation that enables agile at scale and unleashes the power of small autonomous teams? This two-day course will give you inspiring real world examples of how Spotify grew a dynamic learning organisation that continually reinforces a high-trust culture and supports engaged autonomous teams.

You will gain a deep and wide knowledge of how Spotify works under the hood, which will enable you to see more options for improving organisational design with regards to your context and boundaries. You will learn why Spotify made the decisions they made, other options which were considered, and which changes were intentional and which were emergent.

Alberto Brandolini's EventStorming Workshop

8th - 9th November 2018

Want to explore how to model a complex business process, or the whole company software landscape without being trapped in an endless boring analysis phase? Eager to tame complexity with agility, starting in the most appropriate way, with the right understanding of the big picture?

EventStorming Workshop unites agile modeling techniques and the cutting-edge event-driven approach with a uniquely engaging format, that leads to a fast problem exploration and establishes a collaborative approach between key participants.

The result is a clear tangible model, built extremely quickly with the active contribution of all involved roles. Friction points that often lead to wrong implementations are exposed early and natural, clean modelling options are highlighted.

Thanks to our sponsors

Whether you are seeking to improve visibility of your tools, devices or projects, or simply would like to support People, Product, Process eXchange's passionate community through your engagement, our sponsorship team will be able to help you select the best sponsorship package for you! Email sponsors@skillsmatter.com or phone 0207 183 9040.

Available Packages

256-BIT SPONSORSHIP

Engagement Benefits

Exhibitor booth (4.5m x 2.5m) in central conference break-out area

8 free conference tickets, worth £795 each (subject to availability) which you can gift to your clients, your engineering team or members of Computing At School (teachers learning computing to teach the new National Computing Curriculum)

8 free exhibitor passes

6 of your #P3X related tweets retweeted by @skillsmatter before or during the conference

50 conference party drink tokens to give away at your booth

3 gifts or printed items in swag bags

4 places at speakers dinner

Your 300-word news item, interview or blog post plus visual announced on conference sneak preview pages and in social media

Hold tight, skillscasts coming soon!

Two days in London

Do you want to know what the future holds for Agile Testing, or how BDD can help you to improve the build quality of your delivery teams from the start? Are you looking to meet up with the best in BDD and the experts of agile methodologies as well as like-minded individuals with a passion in...

Two days in London

Do you want to know what the future holds for Agile Testing, or how BDD can help you to improve the build quality of your delivery teams from the start? Are you looking to meet up with the best in BDD and the experts of agile methodologies as well as like-minded individuals with a passion in...

Two days in London

Do you want to know what the future holds for Agile Testing, or how BDD can help you to improve the build quality of your delivery teams from the start? Are you looking to meet up with the best in BDD and the architects of agile methodologies as well as like-minded individuals with a passion in...

Two days in London

Do you want your systems to be the best they can be? Want to know how BDD helps delivery teams build quality in right from the start? Interested in meeting leading experts like Jeff Patton to learn about their latest ideas and their vision for the future?

One day in London

Do you want to learn tools and techniques to help you deliver on all requirements in your software? Keen to hear how your teams can use Impact Mapping and Specification by Example to maximise business input? Or maybe you’d like to meet the top thinkers in Agile testing and BDD to find out their...

One day in New York City

Would you like to spend a day learning the latest ideas, tools, and best practices in Agile Testing, Behaviour Driven Development, and Test Driven Development? Like to learn how to have meaningful conversations with stakeholders and get useful feedback that will help you write better, more...

One day in London

Join us for the next Agile Testing & BDD eXchange on November 23 2012. Be part of an intensive day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.

One day in New York City

One day in London

Join us for 2011's Agile Testing & BDD eXchange and be part of an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.

One day in London

One day in London

Following the enthusiastic response to our Agile Testing and BDD community events and courses during the last 10 months, Skills Matter is proud to organise the first, annual Agile Specification, BDD and Testing eXchange.

We are currently working on the programme, which will consist of 6 talks and...